Ferdinand von Sammern-Frankenegg

Ferdinand von Sammern-Frankenegg (17 March 1897-20 September 1944) was the SS and Police Leader of Warsaw under Nazi Germany.

Biography
Ferdinand von Sammern-Frankenegg was born on 17 March 1897, and he rose through the ranks of the SS of Nazi Germany. In 1942, he oversaw Grossaktion Warsaw, the deportation of 265,000 Polish Jews to the Treblinka extermination camp, and he failed in the suppression of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943. Jurgen Stroop replaced him as commander, and he was killed in Klasnic, Croatia on 20 September 1944 by the Yugoslav partisans.